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Service with a Smile: (Blandings Castle) Free FREE SERVICE WITH A SMILE: (BLANDINGS CASTLE) PDF P. G. Wodehouse | 240 pages | 02 Sep 2008 | Cornerstone | 9780099513995 | English | London, United Kingdom Service With a Smile by P.G. Wodehouse Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Service With a Smile by P. The final Uncle Fred novel marks Service with a Smile: (Blandings Castle) return to Blandings Castle to relieve Lord Emsworth's woes: a nagging secretary, prankster Church Lads, and a plot to thieve his prize-winning sow. Uncle Fred must serve Service with a Smile: (Blandings Castle) his brand of sweetness and light to ensure that everything turns out very capital indeed. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published July 1st by W. Norton Company first published More Details Original Title. Blandings Castle 9Uncle Fred 4. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Service With a Smileplease sign up. Just started this book, not realising it was part of a series. Will it be okay to read as a stand-alone or should I go back and get the rest? Stephen Osborne Not necessary. Service with a Smile: (Blandings Castle) can be read as a stand alone. See 1 question about Service With a Smile…. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Service With a Smile. Bill Bailey's attempted marriage to Myra Schoonmaker doesn't go as planned and Myra is whisked away to Blandings Castle to prevent her from marrying him, a penniless curate. Fortunately, Uncle Fred takes Bailey to Blandings under an alias Service with a Smile: (Blandings Castle) goes about spreading happiness and light as only he can Throwing Uncle Fred into the Blandings Castle is Bill Bailey's attempted marriage to Myra Schoonmaker doesn't go as planned and Myra is whisked away to Blandings Castle to prevent her from marrying him, a penniless curate. Throwing Uncle Fred into the Blandings Castle is like throwing torches at an oil soaked Transylvanian house. Uncle Fred weaves an elaborate tapestry of lies, much like in his previous visit to Blandings, Uncle Fred in the Springtime. By the end of the story, the Duke gets what's coming to him and three couples are re-united. Wodehouse fans, this is not one to be missed! All of the Blandings crew are in top form, as is the incomparable Uncle Fred. View all 3 comments. Lord Ickenham aka Uncle Fred is an incurable optimist. In Service with a Smile he's off to Blandings Castle again to spread his form of irrepressible cheer on the inhabitants. Stifled love is in the air and Uncle Fred's the man to clear it! A prize winning pig doted upon by its doddering owner, an underhanded and ambitious secretary, a cantankerous brute of a Duke, love-lorn young folk, a camera-weilding boy with a voice like an electric razor, a beefy boxing curate, and more fill the pages wit Lord Ickenham aka Uncle Fred is an incurable optimist. A prize winning pig doted upon by its doddering owner, an underhanded and ambitious secretary, a cantankerous brute Service with a Smile: (Blandings Castle) a Duke, love-lorn young folk, a camera-weilding boy with a voice like an electric razor, a beefy boxing curate, and more fill the pages with hilarity, but it's Lord Ickenham who grabs the limelight every time. Plotting with and against his acquaintances for the good of all well, mostly all is his bread and butter. He's the sort of fellow who doesn't think it's sporting unless you enter your host's house under an assumed name. This is not Wodehouse's most tightly wound manuscript, a few long dialogue- ful scenes of exposition are required to make it work. However, Ickenham's scheming provides enough unexpected Service with a Smile: (Blandings Castle) to keep you entertained, as one comes to expect from a steady reading of Wodehouse's stock story lines. View all 5 comments. Wodehouse never disappoints! Uncle Fred might surpass my love even for Bertie's Aunt Dahlia, and I thought no one as delightful as her had ever come from his pen. Oh well. As Service with a Smile: (Blandings Castle), the intrepid Uncle Fred had me thoroughly entertained from the very first page. The books are just a delight to lose yourself in, and they never disappoint! In this one, Uncle Fred is once more needed to spread sweetness and light with a smile, of course and is called on to untangle a rather large number of m P. In this one, Uncle Fred is once more needed to spread sweetness and light with a smile, of course and is called on to untangle a rather large number of messes the inhabitants and guests of his friend Lord Emsworth's ancestral home have gotten themselves in. This time he has to foil a pig- napping, prevent a bit of blackmail here and there, help three sets of unfortunate lovers to the altar with the right person, and solve any number of Service with a Smile: (Blandings Castle) little things that just so happen wherever he goes in his incomparable way. View all 10 comments. It's always a pleasure to dip back into the world of P. Wodehouse and, in such troubled times, doubly so. I was unsure if I'd read this one before or not and was delighted to discover this one was new to me. That said, the plot bore a remarkable similarity to numerous other PGW books and was all the better for it. The only blot on the landscape was that PGW's loyal legion of fans were to get no more U It's always a pleasure to dip back into the world of P. Ah well. The cast of Blandings are all in fine form, and this is another Wodehouseian delight. But Bill Bailey, a. Cuthbert Meriwether, has inveigled himself into the castle to be with his beloved, Myra Schoonmaker, who is staying there under the eagle eye of Lady Constance, and Lady Constance is determined to thwart him. One of Wodehouse's novels about Blandings Castle, another one of those wonderful country estates filled with crabby gentlemen, mixed up engagements and calm, cool butlers. My favorite character is described like this. I wish this was a description of me, actually. I love it: "Of Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, fifth Earl of Ickenham, a thoughtful critic had once said that in Service with a Smile: (Blandings Castle) late afternoon of his life he retained, together with a juvenile waistline, the bright enthusiasms and fr One of Wodehouse's novels about Blandings Castle, another one of those wonderful country estates filled with crabby gentlemen, mixed up engagements and calm, cool butlers. I love it: "Of Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, fifth Earl of Ickenham, a thoughtful critic had once said Service with a Smile: (Blandings Castle) in the late afternoon of his life he retained, together with a juvenile waistline, the bright enthusiasms and fresh, unspoiled outlook of a slightly inebriated undergraduate If only real life were like that. Not the best Wodehouse I've read. Still pretty fun, though. Favorite quote: "Have you ever been engaged to two girls at the same time? Nor, now I come to think of it, do I know of anyone who has, except of course King Solomon and the late Brigham Young. Engaged to two girls? Half a second, let me work this out. I am awa Not the best Wodehouse I've read. I am aware that you are betrothed to my little friend Myra Schoonmaker, but however often I tot up the score, that only makes one. You're sure you haven't slipped up somewhere in your figures? While I still have a slight preference to hear my Wodehouse Service with a Smile: (Blandings Castle) by Jonathan Cecil, Jarvis did an excellent job with this 9th entry in the Blandings Castle series. PG Wodehouse is so highly regarded by many readers that there must be something to him. But having read only two, Dr Sally and this one Service with a SmileI find myself thinking these stories are enjoyable, well written, contain some amusing lines and pass the time amiably enough. Service with a Smile: (Blandings Castle) people see much more. I may have to delve further and find out what draws such devotion from others. This is in part, a pig story. Lord Ickenham sorts all this out, ingeniously enough. What strikes me forcefully is that this story is set comfortably among the Service with a Smile: (Blandings Castle) who, if not necessarily the idle rich, certainly have a lot of time for their avocational activities, which of course gives Lord Ickenham the time and opportunity to set straight the course of matters romantic, bucolic and financial. BLANDINGS CASTLE AND ELSEWHERE PDF Cookies are used to provide, analyse and improve our services; provide chat Service with a Smile: (Blandings Castle) and show you relevant content on advertising. You can learn more about our use of cookies here. Are you happy to accept all cookies? Accept all Manage Cookies Cookie Preferences We use cookies and similar tools, including those used by approved third parties collectively, "cookies" for the purposes described below.
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